In the past 50 years, significant progress in women's equality has been made worldwide. Western countries, particularly European countries, have implemented initiatives to attain a more gender-balanced workforce with the introduction of family friendly policies, by trying to narrow the gender pay gap and by promoting women's career progression. In academia, however, fewer women reach top leader...

In this workshop contribution we discuss general conditions for a lightweight approach to collaborative learning of software engineering organizations and academia. Knowledge acquisition is a cornerstone in both professional and academic activities. However goals and driving forces are different in industry and academia. Therefore concepts can be perceived differently in professional and academ...